Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down any threatened spacecraft to avoid short circuits and will temporarily orient each one, says Riegler, "so that its strongest side faces the incoming Leonids." Even the Hubble Space Telescope will turn its back to the meteoroids, to shield the aperture through which it scans the heavens. And the flat solar panels that energize most of the satellites will be turned edge on to the Leonid stream to minimize the possibility of impact...
...potential for appreciating the prints' technical value was high. Despite this, I did not enjoy the exhibition. I did not feel much pleasure from looking at flat but detailed images. If you're like me, you'll stay at home and read the comics in The Crimson...
...supposed to be a testament to the power of love as represented by choir boy Amor, but it never really loses the saucy-sin feel that Quilici and D'Amelia develop in the first act. Furthermore, Drusilla and Otto's relationship blooms very suddenly and seems rather flat, although this has more to do with the libretto than with acting...
...follow the plot almost continuously. Also, I never really noticed that the actors were singing. The color and expression of various voices were at the forefront of the production, but none of the singing seemed staged. The four leads were particularly strong. Quilichi and D'Amelio occasionally swung a flat, everyday-speech exclamation into their performances, and Buff, in her transsexual role as Otto, single-handedly built the tension of the play, bellowing out against Poppea's betrayal...
...Australians are coming! The Sydney Symphony Orchestra sails into Boston's Symphony Hall to mesmerize New England with what The Evening Sun promises will be a "highlight of Boston's performance season." The program includes Koehne's "Elevator Music," Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat Major," and Richard Strauss's "Symphony domestica." 8 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, 482-6661, Tickets...